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Cosmological $N$-body simulations predict dark matter (DM) haloes with steep central cusps (e.g. NFW, Navarro et al. 1996). This contradicts observations of gas kinematics in low-mass galaxies that imply the existence of shallow DM cores.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 Harley Katz , Federico Lelli , Stacy S. McGaugh , Arianna Di Cintio , Chris B. Brook , James M. Schombert

Galaxies grow and evolve in dark matter halos. Because dark matter is not visible, galaxies' halo masses ($\rm{M}_{\rm{halo}}$) must be inferred indirectly. We present a graph neural network (GNN) model for predicting $\rm{M}_{\rm{halo}}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-20 Nikhil Garuda , John F. Wu , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich

We investigate the connection between galaxies, dark matter halos, and their large-scale environments at $z=0$ with Illustris TNG300 hydrodynamic simulation data. We predict stellar masses from subhalo properties to test two types of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-07 John F. Wu , Christian Kragh Jespersen , Risa H. Wechsler

We study dwarf galaxy formation at high redshift ($z\ge5$) using a suite of high- resolution, cosmological hydrodynamic simulations and a semi-analytic model (SAM). We focus on gas accretion, cooling and star formation in this work by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-07 Yuxiang Qin , Alan R. Duffy , Simon J. Mutch , Gregory B. Poole , Paul M. Geil , Andrei Mesinger , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

Galaxy formation models within cosmological hydrodynamical simulations contain numerous parameters with non-trivial influences over the resulting properties of simulated cosmic structures and galaxy populations. It is computationally…

We extend our super-resolution and emulation framework for cosmological dark matter simulations to include hydrodynamics. We present a two-stage deep learning model to emulate high-resolution (HR-HydroSim) baryonic fields from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 Fatemeh Hafezianzadeh , Xiaowen Zhang , Yueying Ni , Rupert A. C. Croft , Tiziana DiMatteo , Mahdi Qezlou , Simeon Bird

Context:Halo formation time, which quantifies the mass assembly history of dark-matter halos, directly impacts galaxy properties and evolution. Although not directly observable, it can be inferred through proxies like star formation history…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-13 Atulit Srivastava , Weiguang Cui , Daniel de Andres , Jesse B. Golden-Marx , Elena Rasia , Ying Zu

In this paper we study the density profiles of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) haloes spanning the full observable mass range, from dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters. Using realistic simulations that model the baryonic physics relevant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-25 Kyrylo Bondarenko , Anastasia Sokolenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Andrew Robertson , David Harvey , Yves Revaz

We extend current models of the halo occupation distribution (HOD) to include a flexible, empirical framework for the forward modeling of the intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies. A primary goal of this work is to produce mock galaxy…

Next-generation weak lensing (WL) surveys, such as by the Vera Rubin Observatory's LSST, the $\textit{Roman}$ Space Telescope, and the $\textit{Euclid}$ space mission, will supply vast amounts of data probing small, highly nonlinear scales.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Max E. Lee , Tianhuan Lu , Zoltán Haiman , Jia Liu , Ken Osato

The condensation of gas and stars in the inner regions of dark matter halos leads to a more concentrated dark matter distribution. While this effect is based on simple gravitational physics, the question of its validity in hierarchical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 Oleg Y. Gnedin , Daniel Ceverino , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Anatoly A. Klypin , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Robyn Levine , Daisuke Nagai , Gustavo Yepes

Strong gravitational lensing offers a unique probe of dark matter (DM) on sub-galactic scales, where the abundance and distribution of low-mass halos are highly sensitive to the underlying properties of DM particles. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Andreas Filipp , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Daniel Gilman , LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

We report on a new method for incorporating interactions between dark matter (DM) and baryons in cosmological simulations, capable of handling the challenging regime in which the dark matter particle mass is comparable to or lighter than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Connor Hainje , Glennys R. Farrar

We investigate machine learning (ML) techniques for predicting the number of galaxies (N_gal) that occupy a halo, given the halo's properties. These types of mappings are crucial for constructing the mock galaxy catalogs necessary for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Xiaoying Xu , Shirley Ho , Hy Trac , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos , Michelle Ntampaka

Intrinsic alignments of galaxies are a significant astrophysical systematic affecting cosmological constraints from weak gravitational lensing. Obtaining numerical predictions from hydrodynamical simulations of expected survey volumes is…

Understanding the impact of halo properties beyond halo mass on the clustering of galaxies (namely galaxy assembly bias) remains a challenge for contemporary models of galaxy clustering. We explore the use of machine learning to predict the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Xiaoju Xu , Saurabh Kumar , Idit Zehavi , Sergio Contreras

Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations are studied in order to analyse generic trends for the stellar, baryonic and halo mass assembly of low-mass galaxies (M_* < 3 x 10^10 M_sun) as a function of their present halo mass, in the context of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Maria E. De Rossi , Vladimir Avila-Reese , Patricia B. Tissera , Alejandro Gonzalez-Samaniego , Susana Pedrosa

Joint analyses of small-scale cosmological structure probes are relatively unexplored and promise to advance measurements of microphysical dark matter properties using heterogeneous data. Here, we present a multidimensional analysis of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-10 Ethan O. Nadler , Simon Birrer , Daniel Gilman , Risa H. Wechsler , Xiaolong Du , Andrew Benson , Anna M. Nierenberg , Tommaso Treu

Modern redshift surveys are tasked with mapping out the galaxy distribution over enormous distance scales. Existing hydrodynamical simulations, however, do not reach the volumes needed to match upcoming surveys. We present results for the…

We use the Millennium Simulation, a 10 billion particle simulation of the growth of cosmic structure, to construct a new model of galaxy clustering. We adopt a methodology that falls midway between the traditional semi-analytic approach and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lan Wang , Cheng Li , Guinevere Kauffmann , Gabriella De Lucia